学者们普遍认为:约公元前1050年出现的腓尼基(Phoenician)字母,在与埃及象形文字(Hieroglyphic writing)结合之后便产生了希腊(Greek)字母。〔1〕希腊字母是约公元前1000年在希腊发展起来的文字体系,是现代欧洲一切字母的直接或间接的祖先。希腊字母的一支卡尔西迪(Chalcidian)字母,可能在公元前8世纪衍生出意大利埃特鲁斯坎(Etruscan)字母;到了公元前6世纪,由埃特鲁斯坎字母又发展出拉丁(Latin)字母(又称罗马字母)。 Scholars generally agree that Phoenician letters, which appeared in about 1050 BC, produced the Greek alphabet after being combined with Hieroglyphic writing. [1] The Greek alphabet is a literary system developed in Greece around 1000 BC, a direct or indirect ancestor of all the letters of modern Europe. A Chalcidian letter from the Greek alphabet, possibly derived from the Etruscan letter of Italy in the eighth century BC; and by the sixth century BC, the alphabet of the Etruscan developed Latin Latin alphabet (also known as Roman alphabet).